Bruce v. Bevis

Citations

• 56 Wash. 547
• 106 P. 129
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 843

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Commissions — Contracts — Evidence — Sufficiency. Where the owner of mortgaged land sold the same and applied to the person to whom he had given the mortgages to substitute a new loan in a larger sum to the vendees, and agreed to pay a commission of $350 for “negotiating” the loan, the owner is liable for the commissions although the mortgagee made the loan himself, he not having acted as a broker on the sale or in any fiduciary capacity, the application for a loan having been made to him to make the loan himself, and the mortgage being given in his name.</p> <p>Witnesses — Cross-Examination—Conversation. Where upon direct examination plaintiff gave parts of conversations with the defendant at certain times, it was proper on cross-examination to compel him to give all of the conversations at the times referred to.</p>